U.S. airlines today are required to collect new personal information from passengers before they board a flight. A new Transportation Security Administration rule now mandates airlines to collect a passenger's full name, date of birth, and gender.

Halliburton admitted it never performed a crucial test of the final cement mixture used on the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
A government panel, commissioned by President Obama to investigate the spill, found that Halliburton failed to warn BP that its cement mixture may be unstable.

Google Inc., the imfamous Internet giant, had made it a point to set aside money for research and development investments. Though the investments appear to be random, they feed into Google's ambitious mission. Here is a slideshow of some of Google's past investments.